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The urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus : from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era /
"This book focuses on urbanisation and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organisation and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, whi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book focuses on urbanisation and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organisation and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multitheoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanisation as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107689749 1107689740 9781107596443 1107596440 9781139343404 1139343408 9781139891295 1139891294 9781107701724 1107701724 |